Building hana-opensap-cloud-2020 Part 3: Master Data

We continue the series on the newly updated source code sample based upon the most recent HANA development openSAP course. This new sample includes the latest features from SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, and SAPUI5.

This week we will continue building the data model, focusing on the Master Data portions. We will see how we leverage the common components built in the previous week, how the localized strings work in action (both from a view standpoint and from an OData service) and how to model composite entities which support deep insert/update.

0:00 Introduction
2:15 Currency Conversion Entities
7:10 Log Entities
17:12 Addresses
26:42 Employees
31:21 BusinessPartners
37:55 Products
43:27 Checking From Database Explorer
48:31 Testing Localized Descriptions
53:34 Closing

[venkatesantc]

Hi Thomas, I am following your videos. I am using BTP and BAS created trial account on May 25, 2021. I have @sap/hana-client: 2.8.20 version.

[iam.vineet]

I'm getting the following error for all the UI objects: "Annotation 'fieldGroup' is not available in vocabulary 'UI'. Did you mean 'FieldGroup'?"
Any fix for that? Thank you.

[fouadsebbane]

Hello Thomas,

For the translation of the fields you specify the language and the text to be displayed.
Is there another way to refer to an existing field type that is already translated and the system will automatically find out the language based on the browser settings and display the corresponding text?

For example in ABAP/CDS we can cast to a data element.

Thanks a lot!

Fouad

[ruffymidjourneyai]

Hi Thomas,

unfortunately, the FIORI UI is not loading for me..Am I missing the HTML5 WebModule? During initial build via cds init I only added hana, mta, pipeline.
When I click on FIORI Link via generated Service URL like you do in the end, the screen is being loaded with no results. Everything else works...Will you also go into more detail regarding UI Binding for a FIORI application?
Thank you.
Rufat

[fouadsebbane]

Hi Thomas,
In addition to currency conversion, I would appreciate it if you would also add an example of quantity conversion.

Thanks,
Fouad

[alisdair]

Hi Thomas,

Really enjoying seeing the details in these sessions. At the risk of sounding like an idiot, have have 2 questions if I may...?

1. Is there a school of thought on using Types vs Abstract Entities? For example, the Amount entity could also be a Type?
2. I can't find any info on the ![...] notation you were using for some of the Entities - T006 etc? Can you explain what this is for/does?

Thx!